Alexis' Thrift Store Treasure

As you know, I LOVE thrift store shopping.  Well, unfortunately I have passed on that passion to my daughter and my niece.  While on vacation, we took a little trip to the thrift store a.k.a. Deseret Industries.  That place is so much better than Goodwill near my house.  Anyway, we came up with a challenge, we had to find something UGLY and turn it into something a little (or alot) more beautiful.    Lindsey found a hideous picture frame and some hanging thing (no idea). Watch her blog for her projects coming soon.

The things I found will also be coming soon.  I still have a few small details to work out. 

Alexis found someone's old treasure box and decided that she could do something with it.
We bought it and gave it a new home with us.  Here is what she started out with:

It needed alot of TLC so we took the lid off and gave it a bit of sanding:

Time to give it that new look.  Alexis picked out a lime green paint, painted it and then put it back together.  We decided that the outside needed something so we found a great tutorial on how to make ribbon flowers (sorry, I have no idea where we found it).  Added some vinyl lettering, a couple buttons and a cute little handle at the top - and ta-da she now has a "new" treasure box.

Cost:
box - $1.50
ribbon - $1.00
paint - left over from a previous project
handle - free (already had it) check it out, it's an old spool that we painted
vinyl lettering - free (already had - I love my cricut)
buttons - free (found in button jar)

New Treasure box - Priceless

Stay tuned for more Thrift store challenges - we have several